Los Angeles Department of Water and Power

Los Angeles Department of Water and Power

Agency overview
Formed	1902 (water) 1916 (electric)
Preceding agency	Los Angeles City Water Company
Type	Water infrastructure and electricity
Headquarters	John Ferraro Building 111 North Hope Street Los Angeles, California 34°03′29″N 118°14′58″W / 34.0580°N 118.2495°W / 34.0580; -118.2495
Employees	9,400 employees
Annual budget	US$6.1 billion (fy2017/2018)
Agency executive	Marty L. Adams, General Manager
Website	www.ladwp.com
Footnotes
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The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) is the largest municipal utility in the United States with 8,100 megawatts of electric generating capacity (2021–2022) and delivering an average of 435 million gallons of water per day (487,000 acre-ft per year) to more than four million residents and local businesses in the City of Los Angeles and several adjacent cities and communities in southwestern Los Angeles County, California.^[2]

It was founded in 1902 to supply water to residents and businesses in the city of Los Angeles and several of its immediately adjacent communities. In 1917, it began to deliver electricity to portions of the city. It has been involved in a number of controversies and media portrayals over the years, including the 1928 St. Francis Dam failure and the books Water and Power and Cadillac Desert.